With the development of science and technology, it seems that everything in society has become intelligent. Intelligence is no longer synonymous with mobile phones and computers. Now glasses are intelligent, bracelets are intelligent, vacuum cleaners are intelligent, watches are intelligent, refrigerators and washing machines are intelligent, and even toilets are intelligent. Intelligence has gradually penetrated into the corners of our lives. The intelligent device I'm going to introduce to you today is the first intelligent hardware device from iFLYTEK - "iFLYTEK Smart Speaker X1". IFLYTEK Smart Speaker is a hot smart speaker that integrates high-definition sound quality, voice control, personalized recommendation and cloud music library. Different from traditional Bluetooth speakers, iFLYTEK smart speakers can play massive cloud music independently through wireless Wi Fi networking and no longer rely on computers and mobile phones. At the same time, smart songs can be recommended based on big data. So what convenience and surprise can it bring to our music life? Please look for it from my in-depth experience these days!


Appearance appreciation:
IFLYTEK smart speaker X1 is packed in a rectangular box. It is easy to see the true face of X1 from the box, but the color is not necessarily red. For example, my model is gray There are two colors of iFLYTEK X1, namely Passion Red and Art Grey, but the photos printed on the packaging box are all passion red.


The functional features of X1 are printed on one side of the package box, including "Migu Music Library", "Perfect Sound Quality", "Automatic Upgrade", "New Hot Recommendation", "Super Endurance", "Wireless Transmission", "Voice Call", "Voice Control", "APP Interaction" and "AUX IN".


The official WeChat QR code and QR code downloaded from mobile phone APP are printed on the other side.


When the box was opened, iFLYTEK X1 came into view. The body was also covered with a layer of plastic film, which was printed with the text introduction of speaker related keys and interfaces, as well as the download QR code of APP.


The accompanying accessories of iFLYTEK X1 are very simple, including a host, a power supply, an audio transmission line, a manual, a local song list and a warranty card.


IFLYTEK X1 is equipped with a 12V 1.5A power adapter. This "big head doll" feeling is totally different from the tall smart speaker!


As a new product of smart speakers, X1's boxy body is really very ordinary. I feel that it lacks some sense of technology. There is no catch up between technology and intelligence. Is this the so-called hardware manufacturer making appearances while software manufacturers playing with internal market rules?


Five keys are arranged on the top of the fuselage in sequence. Each key can obtain different functions by short or long press. Short press is respectively "Previous", "Pause", "Next", "Switch Song List" and "Voice Search Song". Long press and hold are "Volume Down", "Switch On", "Volume Up", "Add and Delete Favorites" and "Hum Song Search".


The bottom of the speaker is marked with the relevant parameters of X1.


There are power supply holes and audio input holes on the back. Next to it is a hidden charging indicator light, which lights red when charging and turns off automatically when fully charged.


The whole body of iFLYTEK X1 is wrapped with metal mesh. In order to take care of the feel, a layer of rubber jacket is put on the top and bottom. It is much more comfortable to touch, but it is still difficult to get dust on it Take care of.


The metal mesh of iFLYTEK X1 is not flat, but has a concave convex pattern.


There is a power indicator on the left side of the button. If the indicator lights up for a long time, it means the speaker is working normally. If it blinks, it means the battery is low and reminds you to charge.


Uncover the rubber jacket of the speaker, and we can see the five physical keys and power indicator on the top of the machine more clearly. To tell the truth, the overall workmanship of the speaker is not very fine. The rubber sleeve is also simply buckled on the speaker. Sometimes the rubber sleeve may be opened by careless hard touch.


On the right side of the power and audio input interfaces, three interfaces are hidden in the rubber sleeve, namely the reset hole, Micro USB interface and a card slot. The reset hole is used to restore the original factory setting when the speaker cannot be used normally, Micro USB interface is not a charging interface, but is used by engineers to clean the machine. It is useless for ordinary users. The unknown card slot does not seem to be TF card slot, and it is not stated in the manual, and it is hidden in the rubber sleeve, indicating that it is not open to users at present. It is estimated that The Micro USB interface is also used by engineers for testing. I tried it, It seems to be a mobile phone Micro- The SIM card slot is used to insert the mobile phone card for networking!


Open the rubber sleeve at the bottom of the speaker, we can see a lithium-ion battery with a built-in label of 8.4V 2000mAh 14.8Wh. Officially, it can support up to 8 hours of wireless music playing, while the charging time is only about 1-2 hours. However, after testing, sometimes the red light is still on after charging for 4 or 5 hours, but the APP terminal has shown that the power is 100%.


In addition to wireless playback through WIFI, X1 can also be used as an external speaker of other devices through the AUX-IN interface, and the effect is also very good. It's a pity that X1 doesn't have built-in Bluetooth function, and you must plug a cable when connecting with the mobile phone tablet, which is still a little inconvenient. Officially, Bluetooth transmission will damage the audio quality, while X1 will provide users with lossless music, so Bluetooth is naturally abandoned. Well, there must be some gains and losses!


Compared with ordinary portable speakers, iFLYTEK X1 is relatively large, and it is still difficult to carry it with you. However, the positioning of X1 itself is also used at home, rather than at any time. It is also a good choice to put a square and upright figure on the bedside table or table. It is not only stable, but also easy to match with furniture.


Mobile applications: IFLYTEK smart speakers provide a dedicated mobile APP terminal, supporting Android and IOS operating systems. It can be downloaded and used through the QR code on the packaging box.


The first time you use it, you need to pair the speaker and the mobile phone to connect to the network. The method is also very simple. The tips on the APP are comprehensive, as long as you follow the tips step by step. Before connection, relevant app settings on the APP cannot be used. It should be noted that the phone and speaker must be in the same LAN for a paired network connection.


Every time you start up, a sweet female voice will welcome you and automatically try to connect. If you have successfully connected in this network, you will be prompted that you have successfully connected. The system has preset some playlists for you to use in the non network environment. You can switch through the Migu button. The APP is divided into two parts, "Discover Music" and "My Speaker". The "My Speaker" interface has six functions, namely "Mobile Music", "Speaker Music", "Scheduled Shutdown", "Speaker Alarm", "Prompt Tone" and "Settings". "Mobile Music" can automatically search the music files in the mobile phone memory and classify them. The entries are very clear.


IFLYTEK X1 has some local music built in, which can also be used without networking. After networking, there is a huge amount of music to play. While playing cloud music, we can add it to our favorites by long pressing the Migu key. We can also edit our own playlists according to our personal preferences.


At the X1 press conference, the official brand of "intelligent remote care" was played for this smart speaker. IFLYTEK X1 supports users to edit song lists through remote APP, so that the elderly and children at home can listen to suitable and favorite music without any operation. However, after testing, X1 currently only supports the push of song lists on the mobile phone within the same LAN. Once the mobile phone changes the network, the connection will be interrupted. Therefore, the so-called "smart remote care" cannot be used at present, but it seems that the version being tested can already support push between different networks. Whether it is true or not, we will wait and see!


The speaker supports the timed shutdown function, which is more suitable for use at night before going to bed. For example, I prefer to listen to a few light music before going to bed, which not only helps sleep, but also makes me feel happy. But I've always been the one who fell asleep after listening, so the timed shutdown function can't be more considerate. Alarm clock is a more practical function in my opinion. I naturally like to wake up naturally, so it is difficult to wake up before 9 o'clock without an alarm clock. iFLYTEK X1 can set the alarm clock by voice control. You just need to press the microphone button briefly and tell it to "wake me up at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning". There is no mandatory text requirement, "wake me up at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning" It's OK. But the disadvantage is that the speaker only supports one alarm clock, and each time it is said, it will cancel the previous alarm clock reminder.


Text narration may not be very intuitive, so use video to demonstrate it!

In the settings, we can also pay to upgrade to high-definition music, but the official said that all music in the cloud is genuine high-definition. What's the difference of this upgrade? You don't give a few songs a try. Who knows whether the money spent is worth it or not.


Migu Music, as a genuine music platform meticulously built for netizens by China Mobile Wireless Music Base, has the largest library of authentic music content in China, including more than 2 million authentic songs, as well as a large number of radio songs. The APP also supports the functions of listening to songs, recognizing songs and humming songs.


Migu Music, as a new media of China Mobile, not only covers various types of music tracks, but also provides opera, crosstalk and prenatal education music areas for different groups of people.


In addition to acquiring songs from the cloud through voice control, the speaker can also push music on the mobile phone APP. In Migu music library, if we find a favorite song, we can click to push at any time. In a few seconds, music can fly out of the speaker.


Voice song request
To be honest, voice song ordering is not a new thing at present. It can be realized on smart phones for a long time, but it is still relatively rare in terms of speakers. Through the test, iFLYTEK X1's voice recognition ability is very good. You can directly say the song name and singer name to search, even if you use the daily way of saying "I want to listen to Wang Feng's" Beijing ", or" I want to listen to Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye", it can also be recognized. In terms of voice demand, X1 has the powerful voice recognition technology of iFLYTEK and the support of Migu Music's massive music database, so the speed of reflection and recognition in the search and audition of popular music is very fast. Of course, the speed of buffering depends on your network environment. In addition to specific song requests, iFLYTEK X1 also supports song searching and playing according to the music style. You can also identify the speaker by saying "pop music", "rock music" or "light music".

Speaking of humming search, I first thought of an Android software. The Chinese name seems to be called "Music Hunter". It is a foreign software. It was used on Android phones a few years ago. At that time, its main function was to search songs by humming or listening to other devices playing music. IFLYTEK X1 is also satisfactory in this respect. Even if the tone of the songs hummed is not quite right, but only the lyrics are right, they can basically be searched. But if the tone is not right and the words are not right, then there is no way.

tone quality
Let's talk about the sound quality effect of iFLYTEK X1. In brief, it is much better than the current portable speakers and Bluetooth speakers. Of course, you can't compare it with those with fever. The effect of X1 can definitely meet most of the non critical ones Ears. The bass effect is more shocking when used indoors. The mid frequency is full and high frequency is transparent. It can be said that it is very suitable for users who like listening to music and are not too demanding.

proposal
Through a series of use tests, we can see that iFLYTEK smart speaker X1 can not only perform voice song search function, but also carry out some simple voice commands, such as setting an alarm clock. But when it comes to voice function, we have to think of Siri on Apple phones or Android phones Lingxi voice assistant, and iFLYTEK's own Xunfei language point. Even though iFLYTEK X1 is connected to the network, why can't it integrate some other voice functions, such as weather query, train and plane flight query, news broadcast, story telling, joke telling, etc., which can be said to be a piece of cake for iFLYTEK. In addition, the alarm clock should also be more humanistic and comprehensive. For example, it can support multiple reminders, giving instructions such as "I will go to Beijing for a meeting at 3:00 this afternoon", "I will go to the hospital to visit friends at 10:00 this morning", and so on, rather than simply getting up. In addition, the so-called voice control of iFLYTEK X1 still does not achieve the effect of freeing hands. Song cutting, song searching, pause, power on, power off, etc. need to be done manually. At present, some brands can do without manual intervention. Why can't X1 achieve complete voice control, such as "iFLYTEK, start up", "change another song", "search a song", "book an alarm clock", etc. In this way, iFLYTEK smart speakers will not be ashamed of "intelligence".

summary
As the first hardware product of iFLYTEK, iFLYTEK Smart Speaker X1 is actually the first water trial of iFLYTEK. Although the current function is relatively simple, the general direction of smart home and voice control is certainly correct. As a speaker alone, iFLYTEK X1 is absolutely qualified and beyond expectations. However, with the addition of the word "intelligence", iFLYTEK should never stop because of a cloud based song request and simple voice song request. Later, we need more human-computer interaction. We need iFLYTEK X1 to bring more convenience to our daily life, and make the operation more simple and casual. These are our expectations for iFLYTEK X1, We also have reason to believe that with the strong technical support of iFLYTEK, X1's future will certainly shine.